Third Time's a Charm...

please-let-me-be-lucky

Happy birthday SB! Hope you've both had a fabulous day Xx

Buffythedebtslayer

OOooooooooooo happy Birthday SB:)


and Ikea.....I spend so MUCH in there! might go have a browse of the website!


Hope you guys have had a Lovely day XXXX:beer:

Pippilongstocking

Pops in to steal a bit of leftover cake. I hope it was a blast, and I'm only fashionably late.



ah the swedish shop.........sighs

Chardonnay

Happy Birthday to SB for yesterday! :beer: Hope you both had a lovely day!

Hope the visit to the hospice goes well and they are able to sort out the pain and sickness x

mooomin

Happy birthday SB

If you can't face Ikea (and it'll fit in my tiny car!) I'm happy to pick up anything you're needing. You'll need to make me a cup of tea, mind

Toto

Happy Birthday SB! Hope you had a fab day.


Jen, the Hospice can sound a bit daunting because everyone thinks they are full of people on their last legs and croaking left right and centre But they're not at all like that. I do a bit of work for our local hospice and it's a bright cheery place where people go to get the best out of life. That might be the final months for some but for others its a much more long term thing where issues like medications can be dealt with. My uncle has been seeing the team at the hospice for leukaemia medications for the past 12 years. On top of that they can help to make sure you and the family have all the support you need now and in the future.


I hope the meeting goes well x

debtfreewannabe321

I hope all went well today at your meeting with the hospice team xx

Twoblackcats

Hello, I wanted to echo what ToTo said about hospices. My husband has cancer, he also has slipped discs and osteoarthritis which cause him more pain than the cancer. The Marsden treat his cancer and not his back pain, his GP can treat the back pain but is nervous of his cancer treatment. So we were referred to our local hospice.
To be honest just that word scared me, but their specialist pain nurse is competent (the pain is largely dealt with now), confident (she tells his GP what to prescribe) and above all else compassionate.
Dealing with your symptoms will be their area of expertise and dealing with your tough journey is also something that they excel at.
For us, out of all of the various healthcare interventions that we experience the hospice one is the most holistic and valuable for us.
A long post, but I hope you too benefit from the fantastic team of experts at your hospice.

kissjenn

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SB!! Wow to be 21 again I hope he has a lovely day! !!


Hospices- My grandfather was in a hospice at the end, it was a lovely place, peaceful surroundings and the staff bent over backwards to help us! ( not that we were demanding I promise ) that was a MacMillans now I think about it. He was only in for a short time so I don't have much experience to share with you but from what I could see it was a friendly place xx

Thank you for sharing DFW. I've never heard anything bad about ST Columbas but somewhere on MSE someone mentioned a "shared room" at a hospice and that keeps sticking in my head. I hate the idea of dying with no privacy or being force to live through a comparative stranger's death in the bed next to me. That's my freaky worry.

kissjenn

mooomin wrote: »

Happy birthday SB

If you can't face Ikea (and it'll fit in my tiny car!) I'm happy to pick up anything you're needing. You'll need to make me a cup of tea, mind

Thanks Moo. Unfortunately two missing items are wardrobe doors...we'd have to drive the two cars back to back...good for a laugh!!